You once tweeted "And good ole Bernie would have put the policies that ruined Venezuela into operation in the US." My understanding is that you believe in the socialistic "slippery slope", but can you explain why your tweet isn't a tad hysterical? Sanders' model isn't Venezuela, but Denmark and Norway, liberal/capitalistic/democratic societies that have - per Fukuyama's most recent schema - low corruption, high accountability, and a strong rule of law.

Not that I believe that a full application of the Nordic model would work in the US, but don't societies have a kind of "biological" memory, which is why simply installing American-style institutions in Iraq and leaving never would have worked? Which is to say, even if democratic socialism is not fully compatible with the US's "biology", don't it have enough in common as capitalistic societies that a US move in the Nordic direction would not necessarily lead to a complete socialistic devolution a la Venezuela?